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July 17, 2012

US computer technology company HP has launched its Converged Cloud solutions programme in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. The company hopes the addition will simplify and encourage the use of cloud technology in the area, CRN reports. Customers can select from 15 HP CloudSystem solutions, according to operating system and requirements for extra hardware and licences.

July 14, 2012

Petro Middle East (PME), a 100% U.A.E. National Company,
engages in providing services and supply of engineering products for the Oil
& Gas, Petrochemical industries and Utilities sector since 1995. PME
represents a vast array of renowned international manufacturers specialized in
engineering products and services. The management's vision and dynamism has
enabled PME to surge ahead as one among the recognized and approved supplier
with all major local and government companies in the UAE for the Oil & Gas,
Petrochemical & Utilities sector.

While embarking on its ERP mission, PME had the primary objective of deploying
an efficient system to streamline the day to day operations of its "Inside
Sales Department" which formed the nucleus of PME's operations. Inside
sales department is primarily tasked with handling daily enquiries,
understanding the correct specifications, sourcing the prices and ensuring that
tenders are submitted within the stipulated timeline. Further, it undertakes
the expedition and logistics aspects of the customer order thereby providing
the impetus for efficient and prompt deliverance. Since most of the engineering
products were specification driven, majority of their customer requirements
needed to be sourced back to back from the principle which makes the process
lengthy and cumbersome to manage. It also required being flexible in managing
the nuisances associated with an industry majorly supplying non stocking and
feature specific materials as demanded by the customer.

The main challenge for the implementation of an ERP system was to come up with
standard coding mechanics for its vast range of engineering products to ensure
that they have a standard nomenclature thereby ensuring tracking, preventing
duplication and ensuring availability of historical data. "Coming up with
definite processes to manage the enquiries and criteria to distinguish the
products enquired was a challenge by its own. We work against deadlines for
both tender submission and delivery and required efficient mechanics to manage
the tender time lines, revisions, mode of submission etc. Though I was skeptic
initially, I engaged with Canias ERP consultants vehemently and all inside
sales activities from enquiry receipt, bid evaluation, tendering, order,
delivery and invoicing are streamlined in the system" comments Mr. Mohamad
Basheer, Inside Sales & Customer Services Manager of Petro Middle East.

Management was interested to ascertain the revenue
generation against different business streams including trading, service,
project and direct forwarding. Further, principals constitute the major element
of its business operations and there required information pertaining to
business performance by principal and the financial performance to the
minuscule level of each order. Mr. Jamal Zaher, Managing Partner of Petro
Middle East comments that, "Though I am yet to engage in ERP aided
management decision making, I am sure it had added required vitality in our
organization and look forward to harness its power very soon".

Canias ERP is been accessed from other locations by PME group companies. The
fact that Canias is fully web enabled and its flexibility in undertaking
customizations has come in handy for Mr. Karim Ghneim, ERP Administrator &
IT Manager of Petro Middle East. "We have enhanced the system utility by
adding in facilities for conducting bid evaluations, performance bond, bid
bond, test certificates etc in the system. The availability of integrated
document management is adding further dimension to the whole system utility by
facilitating visibility within the organization for all commercial, contractual
and HR related documents without any chaos".

July 13, 2012

Integrate
financial information—As
the CEO tries to understand the company’s overall performance, he may find
many different versions of the truth. Finance has its own set of revenue
numbers, sales has another version, and the different business units may
each have their own version of how much they contributed to revenues. ERP
creates a single version of the truth that cannot be questioned because
everyone is using the same system.

Integrate
customer order information—ERP systems can become the place where
the customer order lives from the time a customer service representative
receives it until the loading dock ships the merchandise and finance sends
an invoice. By having this information in one software system, rather than
scattered among many different systems that can’t communicate with one
another, companies can keep track of orders more easily, and coordinate
manufacturing, inventory and shipping among many different locations at
the same time.

Standardize
and speed up manufacturing processes—Manufacturing
companies—especially those with an appetite for mergers and
acquisitions—often find that multiple business units across the company
make the same widget using different methods and computer systems. ERP
systems come with standard methods for automating some of the steps of a
manufacturing process. Standardizing those processes and using a single,
integrated computer system can save time, increase productivity and reduce
head count.

Reduce
inventory—ERP
helps the manufacturing process flow more smoothly, and it improves
visibility of the order fulfillment process inside the company. That can
lead to reduced inventories of the stuff used to make products
(work-in-progress inventory), and it can help users better plan deliveries
to customers, reducing the finished good inventory at the warehouses and
shipping docks. To really improve the flow of your supply chain, you need
supply chain software, but ERP helps too.

Standardize
HR information—Especially
in companies with multiple business units, HR may not have a unified,
simple method for tracking employees’ time and communicating with them
about benefits and services. ERP can fix that.

In the market for relational
databases, Oracle Database competes against commercial products such as IBM's DB2 UDB
and Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle and IBM tend to
battle for the mid-range database market on UNIX and Linux platforms, while
Microsoft dominates the mid-range database market on Microsoft
Windows platforms. However, since they share many of the same
customers, Oracle and IBM tend to support each other's products in many
middleware and application categories (for example: WebSphere, PeopleSoft,
and Siebel SystemsCRM), and IBM's hardware divisions work
closely with Oracle on performance-optimizing server-technologies (for
example, Linux on zSeries). The two companies have a
relationship perhapsbest described as "coopetition".
Niche commercial competitors include Teradata (in
data warehousing and business intelligence), Software AG's ADABAS, Sybase, and IBM's Informix,
among many others.

Increasingly, the Oracle database
products compete against such open-source software relational database
systems as PostgreSQL, Firebird, and MySQL. Oracle acquired Innobase,
supplier of the InnoDB codebase to MySQL, in part to compete better
against open source alternatives, and acquired Sun Microsystems,
owner of MySQL, in 2010. Database products licensed as open source are, by the
legal terms of the Open Source Definition, free to distribute and
free of royalty or other licensing fees.

Pricing

Oracle Corporation offers term
licensing for all Oracle products. It bases the list price for a term-license
on a specific percentage of the perpetual license price. Prospective purchasers
can obtain licenses based either on the number of processors in their target
server machines or on the number of
potential seats ("named users").

Enterprise Edition

As of July 2010, the database that
costs the most per machine-processor among Oracle database editions, at $47,500
per processor. The term "per processor" for Enterprise Edition is
defined with respect to physical cores and a processor core multiplier (common
processors = 0.5*cores). E.g. An 8-processor, 32-core server using Intel Xeon
56XX CPUs would require 16 processor licenses.

Standard Edition

Cheaper: it can run on up to four
processors but has fewer features than Enterprise Edition—it lacks proper
parallelization, etc.; but remains quite suitable for running medium-sized
applications. There are not additional costs for Oracle RAC on the latest
Oracle 11g R2 standard edition release.

Standard ONE

Sells even more cheaply, but
remains limited to two CPUs. Standard Edition ONE sells on a per-seat basis
with a five-user minimum. Oracle Corporation usually sells the licenses with an
extra 22% cost for support and upgrades (access to MetaLink—Oracle
Corporation's support site) which customers need to renew annually.

An addition to the Oracle database
product family (beta version released in 2005, production
version released in February 2006), offers a free version of the Oracle RDBMS,
but one limited to 11 GB of user data and to 1 GB of memory used by the
database (SGA+PGA) XE will use no more than one CPU and lacks an internal JVM. XE runs only on Windows and on Linux, not
on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and the other operating systems available for other
editions. Support is via a free Oracle
Discussion Forum only.

Note: These Prices are vary country to
country e.g. if you purchase Oracle License in United Arab Emirates (Dubai) than
discount margin is different if you are purchasing same product in Pakistan
than discount margin will be different.

July 11, 2012

Better relationships for better business. Efficient
communication with ones customers and partners are vital for organizations. The
CANIAS ERP CRM Module establishes the basis for efficient communication with
unique features. It offers a central communication platform with an advanced architecture
either as a stand-alone module or an integrated solution.

The CANIAS ERP Financial Accounting
Module is the optimum tool for higher transparency and efficiency when
administering finances. It meets all relevant standards and delivers an
innovative and advanced system architecture that allows for easy integration
with other system modules. This systems can be implement in any size of organization large , medium or small . Following are some features we are sharing.

July 8, 2012

Economic sectors that had exhibited elasticity against the global
economic crisis were the trade, transport, storage, communication, tourism, and
manufacturing. These sectors demand never ended even they performed as well as
good when global economic conditions were good.

July 6, 2012

TALLY ERP 9 is
the Middle East most Favorite ERP Systems and powerful concurrent
Multi-lingual business Accounting and Inventory Management software. Tally.ERP
9, designed exclusively to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, is a
fully integrated, affordable and highly reliable software. Built on the
proprietary technology of Tally Solutions - C:MuLATE (Concurrent Multi-lingual
Accelerated Technology Engine) - Tally.ERP 9 is a perfect fusion between the
path-breaking Concurrent Multi-lingual Platform and an Object Oriented Database
Engine.

TALLY ERP 9 is
designed to automate and integrate all your business operations, such as sales,
finance, purchasing, inventory, and manufacturing. The powerful
new features and blazing speed and power of Tally.ERP 9 combine with enhanced
MIS, Multi-lingual, Data Synchronization and Remote capabilities help you
simplify all your business processes easily and cost-effectively.

Marketing
Research Company Gartner forecasts that CRM software sales will rise by 19.7
percent in 2008, to $113.8 million, in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region
and that the MEA region will experience a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.9% from 2007 to 2012.

Gartner also
expects software-as-a-service (SAAS) to gain popularity in the Middle East. However,
not at the same aggressive rates experienced elsewhere. "In terms of SAAS
uptake in North America and parts of Western Europe, that's been very quick and
it's been growing quite significantly year on year. However, in the Middle East
we expect the uptake to be a little bit slower and follow the trend of
continental Europe, places like France and Germany as opposed to places like
the UK and Netherlands which have been faster adopters of SAAS."

According to
the Annual Middle East Call Centre/CRM conference, CRM adoption among Middle
Eastern countries has surpassed 20 percent annual growth and The Middle East
Contact Centre market is currently witnessing a 30% growth rate in the number
of agent positions.

July 5, 2012

In UAE manufacturing concerns
demand is expanding regarding ERP Systems Implementation and most of companies
would like redefine and optimize their processes with help of ERP Solutions. Internet searches increasing day
by day in Dubai regarding buzz word ERP.
C-Level CEO , CIO, CFO , CMO in different organizations searching best
ERP for their organization. Pre Implementation phase is very important, searching and
evaluating suitable ERP Software which meets your organization requirement. For the ease
of our audience and those who are in search of ERP System , we are sharing some successful Companies and ERPSolutions available in United Arad Emirates. C-Levels can reap the
benefit from these systems if they match their requirement. Today we are
discussing one the Software Consulting Company in Dubai which developed its
market in very short span of time with excellence of work it is IAS Middle East FZ LLC.

IndustrialApplication Software - IAS is a dynamic and innovative software company that provides ERP
software and consultancy. IAS, with its out-of-the-box CANIAS ERP,
successfully helps companies to improve and accelerate their way of doing
business.

Currently,
IAS global operations are conducted via Germany, Turkey, UAE and China
offices and business partners throughout the world. CANIAS ERP is
offered in 19 countries and in 11 languages.Industrial
Application Software (IAS) Middle East FZ LLC has office in Dubai Internet
City. The effort and determination been invested to lay the building blocks of
the company is evident from the nearly 20
implementations of CANIAS ERP in UAE since its inception. The company is
also focusing on developing partner network in GCC, Middle East and African
countries.

July 1, 2012

UAE IT spending is expected to reach US$3.8bn in 2012, up 5%,
Government spending and investment should help to support the IT market, with
further opportunities in sectors such as education, healthcare, utilities ,
banking and telecoms. Cloud computing, ERP Software, CRM and business analytics
are among enterprise IT investment growth areas.

ERP Systems, Software’s
& Hardware Expenditure Projections:

Computer hardware
sales: US$1.9bn 2011 to US$2.0bn in 2012, +13.0% in US dollar terms.
Forecast in US dollar terms upwardly revised due to stronger than expected
retail sales growth in 2011.

Software sales: US$641mn
in 2011 to US$681mn in 2012, +6% in US dollars terms. Forecast in US dollars
terms upwardly revised due to analyst modification with the UAE being one of
the regions’s fastest growing enterprise resource planning (ERP) markets.

IT Services sales:
US$1.0bn in 2011 to US$1.1bn in 2012, +7% in US dollars terms. Forecast in US
dollars terms upwardly revised due to analyst modification as services have
become an increasingly important component of many deployment contracts.

Key Trends &
Development in UAE:

·The UAE market has received a buffet from global
economic headwinds but demand for IT products and services should continue to
grow in 2012. However, the property price slump and financial upheavals are likely
to continue to influence business and consumer caution. Abu-Dhabi has been
making most of the running in the wake of Dubai financials crisis.

·Growth potential also exists in the less
developed northern emirates of Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaywayn, Ras al-Khaimah
and Fujairah. The emirates government has launched a major infrastructure
investment program in the northern emirates, which could generate significant opportunities
for IT vendors, despite relatively small population size.

·One factor driving retail growth is a pick-up in
the number of tourist visitors, which provided a boost to the all-important
carry-trade, which had fallen off in 2009. An influx of tourist is expected to
swell spending on consumer electronics goods such as notebooks and tablets.
However, the possibility of UAE joining sanctions against Iran could have an
impact on PC re-reports.